The Intel iAPX 432 was Intel's first 32-bit microprocessor design, introduced in 1981 as a set of three integrated circuits.
The iAPX 432 was intended to be Intel's major design for the 1980s, implementing many advanced multitasking and memory management features in hardware, which led them to refer to the design as the Micromainframe.
The processor's data structure support allowed modern operating systems to be implemented on it using far less program code than ordinary CPUs—the 432 would instead do much of the work internally in hardware.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Intel_i432 (1856 words)
Computers: 1981(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The new chip set, called the micromainframe, was five years in development and will open up applications for which earlier microprocessors lacked sufficient power and conventional computers were too costly.
The micromainframe and other microprocessors in its class are expected to do more than spawn new applications.
Klesken predicts, for example, that the micromainframe will have a "tremendous impact" in signal-processing applications for the military and for companies engaged in oil exploration.
To avoid the cost of installing a number of new high-end PCs, Mountaineer Gas decided to run the M4 software on a thin-client/server system.
MaxStations Dominion installed 12 MaxStations and a Dominion System MicroMainframe server running Citrix Winframe 1.7 thin-client/ server software and DirectICA, Citrix's driver for direct video connections.
Mountaineer Gas engineers who are using the new system for electronic mapping have found MaxStations fast and responsive.
The top of the PET line of computers was a project of the University of Waterloo in Canada.
Based off top-of-the-line Commodore PET technology, the SP9000 (also known as the MicroMainframe) sports 96K of RAM, true RS232, 8032 compatibility, and an architecture and software package that make it a developers' power machine!
When powered on in its Programmer mode, the SuperPET brings up the menu you see here, allowing you to select from its assortment of powerful programming languages and development tools.
Commentary(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
This paper outlines IBM's unsurpassed collection of tools for reducing the cost and increasing the reliability of IT infrastructure through the consolidation and virtualization of servers, storage and workloads.
The December 8, 2003 announcement by Intel of an (Intel-funded) Itanium 2-based server "try-and-buy" program for qualifying Global 500 companies prompted this look back twenty years, an excerpt from which follows: "In 1981, Intel announced a revolutionary new microprocessor family called the iAPX-432 MicroMainframe.
The iAPX-432 had a very advanced capability-based architecture, with hardware and microcode support for multitasking, multiprocessing, and fault tolerance.
www.aallison.com /commentary.html (752 words)
Excerpts from the Jeffersonian Republic project: The Captain and the Countess(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Founded by Russian monarchists twenty years after the Europa Incident, fifty before the War, they followed a line of monarchs claiming Romanov blood.
Their society and their capitol world were a fascinating blend of 19th and 23rd centuries; marble columns and micromainframe computers, tapestries and transatmospheric shuttles.
The Russian Star Empire had a Navy - if one were being generous with the term - and outposts on two more habitable worlds.
Maxspeed Thin Client(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Al Hutchison, President of Dominion Systems, says he knew that Maxspeed's direct video technology would eliminate the lag time that engineers saw on the screen when testing traditional thin-client solutions.
The Solution: MaxStations Dominion installed 12 MaxStations and a Dominion System MicroMainframe server running Citrix Winframe 1.7 thin-client/ server software and DirectICA, Citrix's driver for direct video connections.
Hutchison explained, "We've been dealing with Maxspeed for eight years.
Tandy 1000TL Pictures(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
Don’t remember what I paid for it - Tandy used to sell these for the 1000's.
I wrote a 4.x driver for it since MicroMainframe wanted $50 for theirs at the time, and I thought that was too much to pay (you can get my driver from my FTP site).
This card has worked like a charm since.
tvdog.shacknet.nu /1000TL.html (1645 words)
VICE Manual - 7 Machine-specific features(Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-15)
The 8296 can map RAM into the address range $A***
This resource enables the SuperPET (MicroMainFrame 9000) I/O and disables the 8x96 mappings.
This file contains the complete BASIC, EDITOR and KERNAL ROMs and is either 16k (BASIC 1 and 2) or 20k (BASIC 4) in size.
If you find anything that you think is not accurate, please tell me about it!
Coverage is the whole line of Commodore PET computers, ranging from the PET 2001 to the CBM 8296, as well as the SuperPET (aka MicroMainFrame 9000 in Europe).
Not covered are the so-called "CBM-II" machines, the business machines CBM 610-620, 710-720 (also known as B128 and B256) and the 510-520 (also known as P500)
